iaink

Yes its been asked before, yes its in the wiki...BUT

Nothing seemed very conclusive and there is much conflicting info.


Will Canadian bought games work in a UK spec PSP?


Please, dont guess or speculate, but if you know, can I get a definative answer. Someones happy birthday rests in your hands

bazzz

I think they might do, maybe. Have you tried doing a search?

carrieann

Hi, we brought my sons uk bought PSP with him as it was new, he has bought a couple of games for it here in Canada and they work. Also my daughter brought her Nintendo DS lite and Canadian bought games also work. I hope this helps. Carrie-ann

Atlantic Xpat

Perhaps you should buy the person in question some hair straighteners instead?

iaink

I dont think they would be much use with a crew cut:?


Thanks for all your answers. Yes, even yours Bazzz...put a smile on my face that did.

Novocastrian

Very good AX. Aren't you supposed to be having a power cut or something?

Greenhill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_lockout
The PSP does have partial regional lockout, and uses the same regions as DVD. As of February 2006, the lockout is only used for UMD movies and not for games, although Sony has hinted it is up to the developers if they want to include region protection in their games. As of February 2007, copies of Battlezone for the PSP that are released in certain countries are found to be region protected, however it is unknown if there are other region-protected PSP games in the market.

bananahammock

Hi iaink ............ My son brought his PSP with him from the UK. It plays Canadian games but not films, I just asked him & he said when you first put a game in it asks you to 'update' then it works fine

hot wasabi peas

That sounds familiar.

bazzz

Doesn't bother you though, does it? You just take it on the chin.

ARH

Yes Canadian PSP games will play on UK models. Canadian bought UMD movies won't. If I want to watch a movie on the PSP, I buy the DVD, convert it on the PC (using one of the many available software packages that do this - see Google) and copy it over to the memory stick.

Voyager970

Iain

I brought my sons UK PSP over here, bought him one game to try, didn,t work !!!! :curse:

I looked into why not, and the games are apparently region coded like your DVD's, what a lot of nonsense !!!!! :curse::curse:

So he is stuck with about 4 games for his UK PSP and about 30 for his UK PS2

Hope this helps

Eddie


ADD ON

Just read the other peoples posts, and a few say the games do work, well how come I cant get my sons PSP to play Canadian games, I have updated the software and still didn,t work

burton bunch

Hi Iaink

My Son's PSP plays the games and isnt supposed to play the Video's - but have to admit that we havent tried a Vid yet

Gay
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Chivers52

Son has a UK PsP and so fall everything plays on it, UK games & even Canadian UMD's so not sure what is the correct answer.
All I can suggest is perhaps you rent first, try that way and you only loose your rental if all goes tits up.

iaink

Renting is not an option...its a prospective birthday gift for my nephew who we will be seing on the "family reunion" cruise in a week or sos time.